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Aspiring musicians, and the rest of us, who are curious to know how to create and record music on a PC are invited to TPC May meeting to be presented by Dan Lindholm. Dan is a professional musician/composer with a major in Music & Computer technology and is accomplished in both synthesized and natural instruments. He hails from Sweden and is currently based in Japan.
For his presentation he will demonstrate how to make any computer into a music-machine explaining minimum requirements, problem solving to make things work properly, and various steps in the production process. Topics will include Midi vs. Sound, music software such as Virtual Instruments and Virtual Orchestra, Time Stretching for movies, and Mastering etc.
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Bellow is additional post event commentsby Dan:
Cubase Le (comes like a freeware if you buy a certain soundcard etc.)
Cubase SX 2 (todays version is 4, but I guess 2 is now down in price.)
Cakewalk
Pro-Tools
Reason (standalone or “re-wire” program that works with Cubase)
Logic Audio Silver/Gold/Platinum (last version for windows was 5.5.) Logic Audio 4 should work fine. (The Gold version)
(Tracker
Skaletracker. (also can utlize VSTi instruments and synthezisers.)
Freeware
The older the programs are, less “memory” consuming for an older PC.
Softsynthezisers: VSTi
A good beginner synth (with all the sounds you might need at the first glance)
“Hypersonic”
Sample-Tank
or
“Edirol Virtual Soundcanvas”.
For music, atleast 5400 rpm drive. For music AND motionpicture, 7200 rpm. Memory, more the better. Processor, INTEL is recommended for it’s stability.
Make the computer as efficient as possible, not having it hooked up against the internet. keep it clean as a music workstation. 2 drives. (C-driver for program & drivers, D-drive for recording and sound-library storage.)
Free as much uneccessary “sub-programs” like virus-check. (For an internet computer it’s ok, for a music computer, no. It steals memory making the system unstable.) Firewall, no. You can configure this in the “run” menu with the command:msconfig.exe. boot-up the computer with only the necessary drivers required.
If you soundcard doesn’t support ASIO. Download the “software” driver called ASIO4ALL on the internet. It’s beware and should atleast make your music-making software to behave quicker.
Hope this will inspire the music creativity.
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